Leon Black and Related Topics

Eli M. Black

American businessman.

His son Leon Black is a founding member of private equity firm Apollo Management.

Privately held company that handles investment management and wealth management for a wealthy family, generally one with over $100 million in investable assets, with the goal being to effectively grow and transfer wealth across generations.

In January 2021, it was revealed that Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million over the period from 2012 to 2017 for family office tax advice.

Apollo Global Management

American global alternative investment management firm.

Apollo invested in AMC Theatres in 2001 and acquired the entire company in 2004

Apollo's headquarters in the Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street in New York City, formerly occupied by Tyco

Caesars Palace, acquired as part of Apollo's LBO of Harrah's Entertainment

Apollo lost its investment in retailer Linens 'n Things with the company's 2008 bankruptcy

Apollo was founded in 1990 by Leon Black, Josh Harris, and Marc Rowan.

The Scream

Popular name given to a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893.

A Peruvian mummy at La Specola, Florence.

Pencil inscription on the National Gallery of Norway's The Scream

Two men breaking into the National Gallery, Oslo, to steal the gallery's version (1893 tempera on cardboard) of The Scream, February 1994

The Scream back in the National Gallery after recovery and before restoration, September 2006.

1893, pastel on cardboard. As possibly the earliest execution of The Scream, this appears to be the version in which Munch mapped out the essentials of the composition.

1893, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard. The first version publicly displayed, and perhaps the most recognizable, it is located at the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway.

1895, lithograph print. About 45 prints were made before the printer repurposed the lithograph stone; a few were hand colored by Munch.

1895, pastel on cardboard. It was sold for nearly US$120 million at Sotheby's in 2012, and is in the private collection of Leon Black.

1910, tempera on cardboard. This version was stolen from the Munch Museum in 2004, but recovered in 2006.

Undated, ink drawing. This composition, which features the central figure from The Scream is in the collection of the University Museum of Bergen.

It was sold for $119,922,600 at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art auction on 2 May 2012 to financier Leon Black.

Drexel Burnham Lambert

American multinational investment bank that was forced into bankruptcy in 1990 due to its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by senior executive Michael Milken.

Michael Milken in 2006. He was Drexel's head of high-yield securities

Apollo Global Management, the noted private equity firm, was also founded by Drexel alumni led by Leon Black.

Global share of wealth by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2021

Tony Ressler

American billionaire private equity investor and chief executive, based in Beverly Hills.

The key founder of both firms is Ressler's brother-in-law, Leon Black.

Museum of Modern Art

Art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

The entrance to The Museum of Modern Art

Cross-section of the Museum of Modern Art

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

Claude Monet, Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c.1920

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Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913

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{{nowrap|Giorgio de Chirico}}, {{nowrap|Love Song}}, 1914

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Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942–1943

Co-Chairman– Leon D. Black

Josh Harris (businessman)

Billionaire American private equity investor and philanthropist who co-founded Apollo Global Management, one of the world's largest alternative investment firms.

After graduating, he initially worked at Blackstone for two months before co-founding Apollo Global Management with Leon Black and Marc Rowan in 1990.

Diagram of the basic structure of a generic leveraged buyout transaction

Marc Rowan

American billionaire private equity investor.

In 1990, Rowan co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management with former Drexel Burnham colleagues Leon Black and Joshua Harris.

The John Golden Theatre, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, and Booth Theatre on West 45th Street in Manhattan's Theater District

Debra Black

American Broadway producer and philanthropist.

She is the wife of Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management.